Cambex Corp, Waltham, Massachusetts has unveiled the next generation of its Centurion Raid array back-up systems. Centurion 2000 has slightly more capacity than its predecessor, up to 760Gb per cabinet, but with faster controllers and drives, and more cache. It supports Raid levels 0, 1, 3, 5, and 10 and IBM Corp, Sun Microsystems Inc, NCR Corp, Sequent Computer Systems Inc, Windows NT and Novell Inc NetWare systems. It has up to 2Gb of mirrored cache memory and three different host interfaces supporting data rates from 20Mb to 100Mb per second: fast-wide differential SCSI, Ultra SCSI and fiber channel, which is out next quarter. It supports up to 16 host connections. The disks are of 4.3Gb capacity. Centurion 2000 ships from next month costing from $90,000 for a basic small-cabinet 100Gb system with Raid 5 protection.
